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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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